This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Pacific Standard
Jan 16, 2019
In her new book, Jessica Wilkerson tells the stories of the radical mountain women who fought against bosses and laid the groundwork for ensuing generations of Appalachian resistance.
Source: Stanford News
Jan 15, 2019
Harold L. Kahn, a professor emeritus who helped create a generation of leading U.S. scholars in Chinese and Japanese history, died on Dec. 11.
Source: The Paris Review
Jan 15, 2019
The recent republication of The Third Sex by the Bibliothek rosa Winkel revives lost voices from Germany’s queer past and recovers a remarkable piece of trans history.
Source: NBC News
Jan 15, 2019
The debate around teaching this history has been controversial.
Source: Telegraph
Jan 15, 2019
Whiskers were so popular in the 19th century that even women wanted to grow sideburns.
Source: Fox News
Jan 15, 2019
“He is not a spy,” Hua Qu said. “He's just a history nerd.”
Source: In Style
Jan 14, 2019
As the foremost expert on U.S. presidents and their peccadilloes, Doris Kearns Goodwin thinks we could learn a thing or two from the past.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 13, 2019
“Irascible, brilliant and deeply learned, Ribuffo argued that America’s anti-liberal traditions were far more deeply rooted in the past, and far angrier than most historians would acknowledge."
Source: Washington Post
Jan 13, 2019
The author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, he focused primarily on Christian missions and missionaries, and on the church’s development into a diverse, international religion.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 12, 2019
Mr. Salter — as he was known throughout his career as an activist and academic — died Jan. 7 at his home in Pocatello, Idaho, at age 84.
Source: Time
Jan 11, 2019
And why she loves writing biographies.
Source: Voice of America
Jan 11, 2019
Early maps helped establish a national identity and loyalty for the United States in its early days.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan 11, 2019
And how our personal lives often intersect with our scholarly work.
Source: Forbes
Jan 10, 2019
Data allows us to see the world in ways we’ve never dreamed about, transforming piles of numbers into visualizations that help us understand the world around us.
Source: CNN
Jan 9, 2019
The PBS documentary series provides modern-day resonance -- a guide to tyrants of the past, conveying lessons on how those tactics can be employed in the present.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 9, 2019
by Paul Duggan
With so many fresh voices eager to be heard, Levin told Duggan, old-timers like the neo-Confederate profiled belong in the dust bin.
Source: Rolling Stone
Jan 7, 2019
The Harvard historian on her opus ‘These Truths,’ the Me Too movement, and Trump’s cartoon version of populism
Source: National Security Archive
Jan 7, 2019
The annual award goes to publications deemed especially worthy of attention from academic librarians seeking to build research collections.
Source: Guardian
Jan 6, 2019
Westminster feared a ‘Bolshevik uprising’ when 60,000 strikers fought police on the streets. What really happened in the Battle of George Square?
Source: The Times
Jan 6, 2019
Joe Manning delves deeper, and wants to know more about the people in Great Depression era pictures.
